Monument record MDO7698 - Bronze Age round barrow, Stokeford Heath, East Stoke

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Stokeford Heath taken in 1945. Another round barrow (MDO7697) is located approximately 100m to the north-west of this site and may have been contemporary with it. This feature is not visible on recent aerial imagery, this area now being heavily overgrown with scrub.

(SY 87308816) This is not a barrow but a hut circle, 13 yds across with a well defined bank 18 ins high. The entrance faces south east. <2>

SY 87308816. Barrow(?), completely destroyed. Possibly only a tree-clump enclosure.<3-4>

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Stokeford Heath taken in 1945 <5>. It comprises of a circular mound, approximately 5.5m in diameter. Another round barrow (MDO7697) is located approximatly 100m to the north-west of this site and may have been contemporary with it. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. It is not visible on the most recent aerial imagery available to the project, this area now being heavily overgrown with scrub.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1938 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 87308816) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grimes, W F, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (W F Grimes), 24-FEB-1939 (Map). SWX2943.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 108 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 452 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(42) Barrow (?) (SY 88 NE; 87308816) 130 yds S.E. of (41), completely destroyed. Possibly only a tree-clump enclosure'.

<5> Royal Air Force, 21-JAN-1945, RAF 106G/LA/105 2040-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13191.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455250 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 17 2023 4:28PM